Variation in chemical defenses against herbivory in southwestern Atlantic Stypopodium zonale (Phaeophyta)

Botanica Marina

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 202-208

  Pereira, Renato C ^a   Soares, Angélica R ^a   Teixeira, Valéria L ^a   Villaça, Roberto ^a   Da Gama, Bernardo A P ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chemical defense variation; Herbivory; Secondary metabolites; Stypopodium zonale

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COASTAL WATER; HERBIVORY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; SEAWEED; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECHINOIDEA; EUKARYOTA; HALOPHILA; LYTECHINUS; LYTECHINUS VARIEGATUS; PACHYGRAPSUS; PACHYGRAPSUS TRANSVERSUS; PHAEOPHYCEAE; STYPOPODIUM ZONALE;

EID: 3843077289     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2004.020     Document Type: Article

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